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Volume 01, Number 62 BACK ~ El' GAZlEOF~HE THE LOSANGELES KRSNA CONSCIOUS 0 0 0 COMMUNITY Five thousand years ago on an ancient battlefield in India, Lord Kf!?Qa spoke the words of Bhagavad­ gita to His friend and disciple Arjuna. That holy discourse, spoken in a mere thirty minutes, can awaken and refine our eternal consciousness. "This knowledge is the king of education, the most secret of all secrets. It is the purest knowledge, and because it gives direct perception of the self by realization, it is the perfection of religion. It is everlasting, and it is joyfully performed." - Bhagavad-gitii, 9.2 lllagavall·llla Is Ills His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada A necessity for anyone truly serious about yoga, self-realization or spiritual fulfillment, Bhagavad­ gfta As It Is presents and explains the Gita 's verses without changing their timeless meaning. This complete edition includes the original Sanskrit verses, easily pronouncable Roman transliter­ ations, word-for-word synonyms, transla- tions and elaborate purports. Pure kn.owl- edge, purely transmitted. Forty-four full- color pictures, painted especially for this book. I ,000 pages. Hardcover, $10.95; paperback, $4.95. Available from ISKCON Mailorder, 3959 Landmark, Culver City, Calif. 90230. (Use the convenient order card supplied in this magazine). CONTENTS The Matchless Gift: Liberation in Krg1a Consciousness 3 FOUNDER (unqer the direction of His Divine Grace by His Divine Grace A .C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Sri Siimad Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Prabhupi!da) His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhuplida Living in the Material World: Carbon 14 Goes Out of Date 9 EDITOR Satsvariipa dasa Gosvami BHAKTIVEDANTA BOOK TRUST COORDINATOR Vrndavana, The Highest Paradise 12 Bali Mardan dasa Gosvami by O.B.L. Kapoor, Ph. D. ASSOCIATE EDITOR Jayadvaita dasa SANSKRIT EOITOR The Bhakti Viewpoint: Jagannatha dasa K!1{1a Consciousness in the University 14 PRODUCTION MANAGER Radhlivallabha dasa The los Angeles K!1{1a Conscious Community: ARTDIRECroR 18 Indrapramada dasa The Perfection of Renunciation by Karuoasindhu dasa and Muralivadana dasa ASSISTANT ART I)IREcmR Navadvipa dasa II.LUSTRATORS ON THE COVER Muralidhara dasa, Yadurli(IK!evi dasi, Parik~it dlisa, Bharadraja dasa Devotees of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness at the Society's temple in Los PHOTOGRAPHERS Angeles, California. Bhargava diisa, Muralivlidana dlisa, Viliisa-vigraha diisa, Yaduvara dlisa, PRONUNCIATION OF SANSKRIT WORDS Visakha-devi dasl Sanskrit words and names in Back to Godhead are spelled according to a system PHOTOGRAPHIC TECHNICIANS accepted by scholars throughout the world which indicates the exact pronuncia­ Gariylin dasa, Madhusiidana dasa, tion of each word. Vowels in Sanskrit are pronounced almost as in ltal.ian. The Gadagraja dasa , Cakradhara diisa sound of the short a is like the u in but, the long ii is like the a in far and held twice as long as the short a. and e is like the a in evade. Long i is like the i in pique. The PROOFREADERS vowel r is pronounced like the re in the E(lglish word fibre. The c is pronounced Harike~a dlisa, Santo$a dasa, as in the English word chair, and the aspirated consonants (ch. jh. dh. etc.) are pro­ Gopiparli(ladhana dasa, Dravi(la dasa nounced as in staunch-heart, hedge-hog, red-hot, etc. The two aspirants t and~ are pronounced like the English sh; s is pronounced as in sun. Thus ~va is pro­ TYPE COMPOSERS nounced KRISHNA, Caitanya is pronounced CHAJT ANY A, etc. Ragatmik3-devi dlisi, Nara-devl dlisi. XIOH;o>Vt.l..oflooof AMIVOot.,t.l luoio...., U iot Dul)khahantri-devi dlisi, Baliii"devi dlisi __ INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS x- Ufll\oef-'fJMicroMM ._ Published monthly, S6.00 per year ($7.00 outside USA), by the ........ MEMBERSHIP U"'"""rllllc:tOIIIM~ ·-­~ Bhaktivedanta BookTrust ,3764 Watseka Ave.,Los Angeles, Calif. ... .. ....... fw'-'•0..."'~ 90034. Editorial Officos:38Tiffany Place, Brooklyn,N.Y.II231 For information on how you can become a registered member of the International FUASE wq,fE FOR Back to Godhead No.6201974Bhaktivedanta BookTru st Society for Krishna Consciousness, please write to the Society's secretary at 3764 ()Ot.lfi'l£TE H"OAMATJON All rights reserved. Printed in USA. Watseka Avenue. Los Angeles, California. 90034. -­ • INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS I CENTERS AROUND THE WORLD AFRICA: Capetown, S. Africa-74A Upper Waterkant St.: Nairobi, Kenya-P.O. Box 28946 (E. A frica). 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The goldsmith uses a small hammer and taps the gold many times, but the blacksmith uses a large hammer, and with one stroke his job is finished. This is the blacksmith's method; we take the big hammer of bhakti-yoga and finish all material life. There is no need to undergo the many lesser disciplines, nor to follow any other process. In actuality, there is no possibility of put an end to material life by one stroke even following the other Vedic pro­ kevalaya). There is no need to first cesses to perfection. For instance, the tlnc•.. rorn severe penance and austerity, ha~ha-yoga process would say: "You celibacy, control the mind and have to become strictly celibate and charity, perform great sit in the forest wtth your body at a very truthful right angle to the ground, pressing by one stroke-by your nose with your finger for six months." Who could follow such an instruction? Since such a method is practical in this present age, the """"" ~-- ~Iasmttn's method has to be dis- Photo: Bhargave das& Back to Godhead 3 carded.
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